Hello everyone! I have no experience when it comes to how nfc works, especially when it comes to the Disney Infinity base and figures, but I had a really cool idea when thinking of my friends young son. I was wondering if there was any way to get the base to speak to a PC, so that when I place a figure, it would play the correct movie associated with that figure.
With my limited knowledge, I would assume you would have all the movies ripped to a drive on your PC, then once you figure out how to get the base to speak to the PC, you would run a script or program that would recognize the figure and then play the correct movie, so a Buzz Lightyear figure would play Toy Story, a Baloo figure would play Jungle Book, etc.
The kiosk in the stores worked in a similar way, it would play a demo video when the figure was placed on the base, I was just wondering if there was any way to do this at home. It would be cool to run something on a HTPC so that the little ones could grab their toy, place it on the base, and their favorite movie would start playing automatically.
Any advice on what to research would be greatly appreciated.
Alright, so I'm pretty late to the party, but this isn't going to be possible without drivers for the base under Windows. Oh wait, they don't exist.
It DOES work as a generic HID device under Windows, but with no way to activate the device, good luck even parsing the raw input.
Best course of action is a USB sniffer with a console. You'll need to read the init process from the console, and then replicate that. Then it's just a matter of reading the data sent back.
I'm not sure if the codes on the figures are unique, but I'd guess they are. You'd have to have some fun getting dumps and matching them up to what the figures are. Nobody seems to care about Infinity. Most people care about Amibo, or I guess Lego Dimensions.
Then, once the hard work is done, you'd just launch VLC with the correct video file as an argument.
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Hey guys, For those of you who like minecraft, Check this out
Its called block story and I am impressed The graphics are great and the ideas of extending the game with things minecrafters would only imagine
check it out it is on the google play store
all credit goes to Paul and HeadHunter the developers of the game
here is the site for their development
http://blockstory.net/
Check out the action here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8gaFceDSbxA
I have it on both Android and PC. It is everything he says and more. You can let your imagination and creativity run wild, or just go kill something and level up. Awesome game. Oh, and the worlds you create you can transfer from PC to mobile, or from device to device and keep on going anywhere.
Check out the PC version here: http://www.blockstory.net/pc
I couldn't think of a better place to ask this, and seeing as I can't find anything on the Internet, I will try here. As most of you probably know, some games require a user to be online at all times. Seeing as I don't have 3G, and only use Wi-Fi, this can present a bit of a problem when I want to play games offline (such as Dark Knight Rises or The Amazing Spider-Man). I've resorted to keeping an eye out for offline APK's, but the trouble is too much. I would GLADLY buy the game if there was a way I could play these games offline. My question, is if there is some kind of app that tricks your phone into thinking it's online? That way the game I wish to play could do it's 'update check', and simply bypass it, so I can play the game. I haven't heard of anything like this before, that's why I figured I'd ask here. Or possibly if there is a way to patch an APK file so you can play it offline, would be beneficial as well. Any answers would be much appreciated!
James_Evan_Bond said:
I couldn't think of a better place to ask this, and seeing as I can't find anything on the Internet, I will try here. As most of you probably know, some games require a user to be online at all times. Seeing as I don't have 3G, and only use Wi-Fi, this can present a bit of a problem when I want to play games offline (such as Dark Knight Rises or The Amazing Spider-Man). I've resorted to keeping an eye out for offline APK's, but the trouble is too much. I would GLADLY buy the game if there was a way I could play these games offline. My question, is if there is some kind of app that tricks your phone into thinking it's online? That way the game I wish to play could do it's 'update check', and simply bypass it, so I can play the game. I haven't heard of anything like this before, that's why I figured I'd ask here. Or possibly if there is a way to patch an APK file so you can play it offline, would be beneficial as well. Any answers would be much appreciated!
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Just buy the game, and you will not need rare patches or tricks to bypass the license verification cracked games
I personally bought an Ouya the moment XBMC announced they would support it. I find the Ouya interface lacking/laggy and buggy to say the least, even the android ports of the emulators are sub par compared to my modded xbox, wii or even wii u so I don't mind much for them. At any rate my ouya is pretty much fully XBMC, atm I use the boot program to auto load xbmc at startup. However controls are clunky compared to original xbox DVD remote I've been using for years now. The ouya is a nice speed improvement inside xbmc compared to aging xbox. So i've been trying to get the dongle to work via USB. So far I've soldered a USB cable to the pinouts inside the dongle and with the aide of drivers someone made got it working in windows, but need some help mapping the buttons correctly to the ouya/xbmc, right now each button does something different lol. The ouya see's the remote as controller 1 and it's kind of interesting it does anything in the main Ouya menu at all.
I've taken the keymaps.xml xbox remote section and pasted it into my ouya xbmc userdata keymaps folder still no go inside XBMC. Anyone else interested in having this working? I'm sure there has to be some people like me who use my xbox for xbmc every day still and want the Ouya only as an HD upgrade to the xbox 1.
Any hints/clues on where to start looking? I'm afraid I may be out of luck until a bug in XBMC gets fixed (I read android xbmc has keymaps issues yet to be resolved) Source - http://wiki.xbmc.org/index.php?title=OUYA Halfway down first under "Known Issues"
I also understand getting it mapped in the Ouya menu and in XBMC are two different things, I'm mostly interested in getting it mapped in XBMC but for fun if anyone has any info on mapping it in android Ouya menu that would be cool too, I'd like to use this as a learning experience
Here is some pics of what i've done so far for testing - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53003733/2013-07-26%2007.22.00.jpg
and - https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/53003733/2013-07-26%2007.22.09.jpg
Of course I'll pretty it up when I can get it working and such, sorry crappy quality pics
you know when you think something is really cool, and you completely support it, and want the idea to blossom in every way, but just kinda aren't into it?
godspeed brother. knock 'em dead.
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you know when you think something is really cool, and you completely support it, and want the idea to blossom in every way, but just kinda aren't into it?
godspeed brother. knock 'em dead.
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LOL ya it seems not many are interested in this. FWIW I will post what i've found so far. I've mapped the remote using keymaps.xml. After some research the only remotes that seem to work on android at all are ones that are recognized as a keyboard and therefore can map, this way it also requires no drivers. Seem the official MS remote uses its own itteration of some sort. With an App called keytest.apk I've tested the input's it's reciving via the IR, it's random button it gets every time so no amount of tweaking the .xml will make it work as I had hoped
I did find a product called FLIRC that looks promising though! Might be exactly what I need to get this MS remote working on the Ouya as it does the XBOX
The website is www.flirc.tv The product is actually a very great idea, can't believe I never knew of it before. :good:
Hi guys, been a while since i posted on these forums so bare with me...
But lately as I'm soon going to be restoring a Z3 ive been looking into the headunits going around.
And truth be told i prefer the Chinese ones to the international branded ones like pioneer.
But i have a few questions so I hope this is the right forum.
My coding experience is limited but not non-existent. I've grabbed android studio and had a nice look around at it. Going to try come test projects on it to get the hang of it before I start any serious work.
My plan is to build a new homescreen launcher with a built in radio/music player. As I feel when looking at the android launcher they put on just doesnt sit right with the main function of this device... IE its a radio and music player...
So Im going to build a new front end with all the controls available to the driver in a safe easy to use way.
So now the questions
Are there any tips on building launchers for these units?
The USB DAB+ stick thats been mentioned many times here. How do you access the steams and communicate to change frequencies and such with it? (I realise thats likely an indeph question and is probably detailed in an SDK somewhere if you can point me to that SDK or detail that would be great)
The CD/DVD unit built into the headunits. how is the audio stream handled? Does it bypass android completely and go to the preamp in the unit? Or is there some sort of interface with android? Even to only provide software controls?
Also can the CD/DVD drive be used for data? I guess if it bypasses android thats a no
Now for the Units.
Theres many nice ones with decent facades, but im having trouble finding the right one. Joying seem good but being in the UK, where can i order it without being charged duty. Is there any UK/EU distributors?
Also im looking for ones with the higher res screen and 2gb ram... That seems very hard to find together along with a nice facade... There are ones that have touch sensitive controls and no CD/DVD drive, but that defeats the purpose and tbh make the unit less safe to use. This is for a car remember...
So any tips?
Sorry if this is a bit rambling... Its been a while
Either no one knows or my questions too disjointed....
Lets try to simplify it.
1) Are there any tips of guides to building your own launcher?
2) Is there any kind of SDK for the realteck DAB+ stick, how do you read streams and manipulate frequency ect...?
3) How do the Units handle the DVD/CD drive, does it bypass android and go straight to the amp or is there some sort of interface with android?
4) Do the drives read data? Such as MP3 cds that android can pick up? (my assumption is no, im not sure android supports optical drives)
5) Are there any confirmed decent UK or EU distributors for the headunits we see from joying/ownice......?
Hope that helps
Not to discourage you but your plans about a new launcher might not be worth it as you can already replace the launcher in these units with any Android launcher. There's even some that are already geared towards driving.
If you want to go full-on custom you could use something like Lightning Launcher and pretty much customize every little thing.
For the music and radio controls there are some re-skinned widgets in the Software forum. Without source code I don't believe you are going to be able to go much further than this. I prefer Poweramp over the stock music player so I just use one of its widgets, would be nice to have something similar for the radio though (although internet-based radio apps are always an option).
The other questions I don't have answers for.
Thanks for getting back... Not discouraged. I probably will still have a go though ill look into the other ones available though
I’d like to start off by saying some of these views are totally personal to me, and how I use these kind of boxes day to day. I have been looking at the NVIDIA Shield TV 16gb model, with the controller and remote.
The Shield TV is right at the top of list of Android TV boxes, it has the spec and the features to make it a future proof Android TV box. The Tegra X1 makes it incredibly fast and snappy. I found myself clicking around with ease, without a single stutter.
The initial setup was easy, once turned on, I did a couple of updates and was logged straight into the Shield TV home screen. This leanback launcher can only be controlled with the “dpad” on either the controller or the remote. There are various rows, including suggestions, Nvidia apps and your own downloaded apps. The suggestion row is bizarre, as I have no idea what the recommendations are based on. I can alter what sources are used (Youtube, Google TV/Movies etc), but the recommendation engine isn’t very good.
Installing apps is easy, but this may be due to the lack of apps you can download. I found very little of my daily driver apps to download, and had to resort to second or even third rate alternatives. This isn’t really NVIDIA’s fault, as this is more an issue with Android TV. Apps have to be compatible and made for the “leanback” generation. Apps like Solid Explorer, TTorrent, and Transdroid are always installed on any Android box, but I was unable to here.
There are ways around these app limitations, involving sideloading, and alternative launchers. But I just want to install an app and use it, I don’t want to have to turn around the box so it’s facing east, wait till the time includes a 9 and then chant whilst installing an APK file! This may be a slight exaggeration though.
Though I was happy to see Kodi and SPMC were compatible. Though SPMC is the only one which utilising the passthrough audio correctly. So I installed SPMC, and plugged in my external HDD and started updating. Now came another issue, I always delete the files via SPMC after watching, and set it to physically delete the file. This has worked on even the worst Android boxes, but on the Shield TV it didn’t. The app would “delete”, yet when I went back and updated, the show/movie came back. After some Googling I found this was a common problem for a lot of people.
I ended up installing one of the two FTP servers on the TV app store, and connected via FTP. Selected the file, delete, but just got back an error! This again was a widely reported issue, and I ended up having to install ES File Explorer (Ugh!) and delete the file that way. Finally I was able to do it. But this was after a couple of hours of research. That was one of the big nails in the coffin for me.
I even reported this to the NVIDIA support team, and they weren’t very helpful. I was passed around a lot, and was sent to level 2 support about 3 times, only to be told to do something I had initially told support I had done!
I am so glad I got the box with the remote, as I was getting annoying navigating around with the bulky controller. I would of liked the remote to be included, and the controller to be sold separately, though I can see why as there is the gaming element.
Now speaking of games, I was massively impressed with the SHIELD games app. There is a long list of games you can play, some for free and some have to be purchases, you check them all out here shield.nvidia.com/games/android
Playing Batman Arkham City, I didn’t notice a single bit of lag in the controls. They were quick and easy to pick up, and felt just like a console game. This alone is a great feature, and I would totally buy a lower priced box, if it just offered this feature and nothing else.
I was happy to see that the thumb sticks on the controller could act like a mouse, but only on some apps. This was my next issue, I use an app called TTorrent, as it does exactly what I want, but this cannot be navigated with the remote or the controller. So now I had to get a bluetooth mouse, which works, but I am now using 3 bloody controllers to navigate one box. Why not give the remote air mouse properties, and then everything would be great.
If they released just a console version of this, for £129 then I would probably buy it. But for what I used my Android boxes for, and how I use them, this box is just too restricted to work into my life. That’s not to say it won’t be awesome for the other 99% of the people out there, this is just my opinion.
http://droidhorizon.com/nvidia-shield-android-tv-box-review/
I cant tell you how many cuss word filled rants I've started typing in the google and nvidia feedback activities expressing many of these same feelings. Sometimes I even avoid messing with it altogether just to prevent the rage I feel about some of the implementations (or deliberate omittance of) by google who for whatever reason decided to cripple these devices with whatever nonsense ideas they have in their heads when they are making their decisions about what the "leanback" experience should be like. Maybe it makes a little sense to limit some parts of Android Auto but I cant believe what I'm seeing in my living room. Its absurd. Then I just delete it like a good end user and try to focus on the things that it does do really well. The device itself is awesome but being a tinkerer makes for a lot of frustration and it totally blows my mind seeing what I think is a perfect example of the direction I think google intends to take with the Android OS